Tessa Cheek is a staff reporter for The Colorado Independent. Her book, Great Wall Style, an essay about a series of villages and farm houses in rural China, will be brought out by Images Publishing in November 2013.

Campaign mailers underlining the anti-choice views of Republican state senate candidates Bernie Herpin and George Rivera reportedly landed in some Colorado voter mailboxes last week, stoking flames in the already hot recall elections organized in response to gun-control legislation passed in the spring.